Zonidiscus discus
No picture of Zonidiscus discus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zonidiscus discus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZonidiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Zonidiscus discus on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Zonidiscus discus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zonidiscus discus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Zonidiscus discus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Boiotremus longitudinalis2 sites
- Anapetopsis fasciatus1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Beyrichidiscus fecundatus1 site
- Boucotinskia sulcata1 site
- Clorinda rotunda1 site
- Coelospira pusilla1 site
- Conotoma claustrata1 site
- Cyrtostropha monoliniformis1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Levenea canaliculata1 site
- Linoporella punctata1 site
- Lissatrypa obovata1 site
- Longstaffia laqueata1 site
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus1 site
- Michelia whiteavesi1 site
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula1 site
- Oriostoma roemeri1 site
- Oriostoma wisbyense1 site
- Orthonychia enorme1 site
- Phanerotrema dolium1 site
- Plectatrypa lamellosa1 site
- Plectonotoides boucoti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zonidiscus discus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Zonidiscus discus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zonidiscus discus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zonidiscus discus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itZonidiscus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)